More than 5.3-million households and 21-million people don’t have clean water, despite money being spent on dams and pipelines to deliver water to 95% of the population. Sipho Kings looks at how R1.3-trillion worth of infrastructure has been subject to so much corruption and mismanagement that many places are worse off than in 1994, leaving the state with a R898-billion bill this decade
“The young guns are missing a bit of guts. A bit of balls. A bit of ‘Okay, I’m here and I want to win and I’m going to do whatever it takes’.” John McEnroe It’s been 19 years since Roger Federer eliminated Pete Sampras in a Wimbledon round of 16 match to usher in a […]
Removing them, even temporarily, is not easy. And for good reason, writes Franny Rabkin
It will take the end of patriarchy and an efficient justice system to jail more offenders
Despite promises of relocation, two months after floods people in Mamelodi are still living in a church. Bongekile Macupe and Delwyn Verasamy went to talk to the learners who are trying to get on with school while living in a loud and alien environment
Once again, political expediency has trumped principled action
In his swansong, Santu Mofokeng ruminates on mortality, ancestry and dispossession
The treasury’s rejection of South32’s proposal to increase the value of its Eskom contract by R1.2-billion could spark a coal shortage for the parastatal
These include improving teachers’ knowledge and pay, and teaching in the mother tongue
Ahmed Rashid Abdoola’s love for cars is unquestionable. His front yard is filled with cars that need to be repaired — but there is one that’s in perfect condition, a 1978 Peugeot 404. Abdoola’s love for this vehicle is a relationship long in the making — since 1982, when he bought it. Abdoola says he […]